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Significance
School results have long been weak in Mexico. While, as a proportion of GDP, education expenditure is significant, the system is inefficient, with a large proportion of the budget going to salaries, and militant teachers' unions exercising a stranglehold on the sector.
Impacts
The government will lose a huge amount of credibility if it allows education reform to be derailed in Oaxaca and Michoacan.
The clampdown in Oaxaca may see the SNTE maintain a low profile, but it gives the CNTE no incentive to alter its violent tactics.
Even if fully and successfully implemented, reforms will take several years to affect education standards noticeably.
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